Play the ‘Golden Girls’ TV Crossword

Guinness World Records made it official in 2013: Betty White was the female entertainer with the longest career in television. She was only 91 years old back then, so she still had eight more years to add to that impressive total of over seven decades in TV showbiz.

White was never not successful. She started with bit parts, then hosted early variety shows, and starred in sitcoms like Life With Elizabeth, all in the 1950s. In the ’60s, she became a popular guest on game shows like Password and To Tell the Truth and often landed on the Tonight Show sofa chatting with Jack Paar and Johnny Carson.

But that was only the first half of her career. For all of White’s early accomplishments, her real fame exploded only after she was 50 years old! That’s when she starred in her two most well-known roles, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the mid-’70s as homemaker Sue Ann Nivens and then in the ’80s as Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. So how did she follow all that, which included three Emmys for those two shows? Another Emmy for hosting Saturday Night Live in 2010 (at 88 years old) and another successful sitcom, Hot in Cleveland, right after that for six seasons. This special Puzzler issue is all about White, the First Lady of Television. Play the Golden Girls TV crossword below.